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3. Dress, Servants, Nursing. Doran, J: Habits and men; with remnants of record touching the makers of both. N. Y. 1865. D. 646: 6 Contents. Between you and me.-Man and manners, and a story with a moral to it.-Adonis at home and abroad.-Remnants of stage dresses.-Three acts and an epilogue.-The tiring bower of queens.-"La mode" in her birth place. - Hats. - Wigs and their wearers. - Beards and their bearers. Swords. Gloves, b-s and buttons. - Stockings.-Masks and faces. Puppets for grown gentlemen. -- Touching tailors: Why did the tailors choose St. William for their patron? The tailors measured by the poets; Sir J: Hawkwood, the heroic tailor; G: Dörfling, the martial tailor; Admiral Hobson, the naval tailor; J: Stow, the antiquarian tailor; J: Speed, the antiquarian tailor; S: Pepys, the official tailor; R: Ryan, the theatrical tailor; Paul Whitehead, the poet tailor; Mems. of "Merchant tailors".-Chapters on beaux: The beaux of the olden time; Beau Fielding; Beau Nash; The prince de Ligne; Beau Brummell. Doctors ready dressed.-Odd fashions. Church, Ella Rodman. The home needle. (Appletons' home books.) N. Y. 1882. D.

Dewing, Mrs. T. W., born Oakey. dress. N. Y. 1881. S.

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6. Communication and Commerce.

1. Communication.

Writing.

Astle, T: The origin and progress of writing, as well hieroglyphic as elementary; ill. by engr.taken from marbles, mss. and charters, ancient and modern, also some account of the origin and progress of printing. Lond. 1876. F. 651: R1 Fauvel-Gouraud, Francis. Practical cosmography; a system of writing and printing all the principal languages, with their exact pronunciation, by means of an original, universal phonetic alphabet, based upon philological principles and representing analogically all the component elements of the human voice, as they occur in different tongues and dialects, and applicable to daily use in all the branches of business and learning; with specimens of the Lord's prayer in 100 languages. Prefixed, a general introd. elucidating the origin and progress of language, writing, stenography, phonography, etc. N. Y. 1850. O. 653+1 Anderson, T: History of shorthand; with a review of its present condition and prospects in Europe and America. Lond. 1882. D. 653:4 Rockwell, Julius Ensign. The teaching, practice and literature of shorthand. (U. S. Bureau of education; Circulars of information). Wash. 1884. O. 653:7

Contents. Systems.-In foreign countries.-In the U.S.-Bibliography of works in the english language. -Shorthand alphabets [1602-1882]. Cross, J. G: Eclectic short-hand; writing by

principles instead of arbitrary signs for general use und verbatim reporting. 5th thousand. [4th ed.] Chicago. 1883. D.

Graham, Andrew J. The hand-book of standard or American phonography; in 5 parts. N. Y. n. d. D. 653: 6 Longley, Elias. The american phonographic dictionary; exhibiting the correct and actual shorthand forms for all the useful words of the english language, and, in add., many foreign terms; also the best shorthand forms for 2000 geographical names, and as many family, personal and noted fictitious names. Cinc. 1882. D.

653:3 Pitman, B, and Jerome B. Howard. The phonographic dictionary; containing the reporting outlines for upward of 30,000 words, embracing every useful word in the language and a large number of proper and geographical names, legal, scientific and technical terms, etc. Cinc. 1883. D. 653:5

Telegraphy.

(See also under Physics, Electricity, cl. 537, col. 315.) Briggs, C: F., and A: Maverick. The story of the telegraph and a history of the great Atlantic cable; a record of the inception, progress and final success of that undertaking, a general history of land and oceanic telegraphs, descriptions of telegraphic apparatus and biographical sketches of the principal persons connected with the great work. III. N. Y. 1858. D. 654:2

Sabine, Robert. The history and progress of the electric telegraph, with descriptions of some of the apparatus. 3d ed., with add. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1872. D. 654:5 Preece, W: H:, and J. Sivewright. Telegraphy. [Text-books of sciences]. N. Y. 1876. D.

Loring, A. E. A handbook of the electro-magnetic telegraph. [Van Nostrand's science ser.] N. Y. 1878. T. 654:3 Lockwood, T: D. Electricity, magnetism and electric telegraphy; a practical guide and hand-book of general information for electrical students, operators and inspectors. Ill. N. Y. 1883. O. 654+8 Bond, R. Handbook of the telegraph; a manual of telegraphy, telegraph clerks' remembrancer and guide to candidates for employment in the telegraph service. 4th ed., rev.; app., questions on magnetism, electricity and practical telegraphy for the use of students, by W. McGregor. Ill. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1873. D. 654:1

Printing.

Humphreys, H: Noel. A history of the art of printing from its invention to its widespread development in the middle of the 16th century, preceded by a short account of the origin of the alphabet and the successive methods of recording events and multiplying ms. books before the invention of printing. Ill. Lond. 1867. F. 655: R7 Masterpieces of the early printers and engravers; a series of facsimiles from rare and curious books, remarkable for illustrative devices, beautiful borders, decorative initials, printers' marks, elaborate title-pages, etc. Lond. 1870. F. 655: R8 Hawkins, Rush C. Titles of the first books from

the earliest presses established in different cities, towns and monasteries in Europe, before the end of the 15th century, with brief notes upon their printers; ill. with reproductions of early types and first engr. of the printing press. N. Y. 1884. Q.

23: L Pearson, Emily C. Gutenberg, and the art of printing. 3d ed. Bost. [1880]. D. 655:2 Hessels, J: H: Gutenberg; was he the inventor of printing? an historical investigation embodying a criticism on dr. Van der Linde's "Gutenberg." Lond. 1882. O. 655+P4 Linde, A. van der. The Haarlem legend of the invention of printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster, critically examined. From the dutch by J. H. Hessels, with an introd. and a classified list of the Costerian incunabula. Lond. 1871. O. 655+3 Adams, T: F. Typographia; a brief sketch of

the origin, rise and progress of the typographic art, with practical directions for conducting every dep. in an office. Phila. 1837. S. 655:1

Hart, M. C. The amateur printer, or Typesetting at home; complete instructor for the amateur in all the details of the printer's art, with explan. engr. N. Y. [1883]. S. 655:6

Bruce's, G:, son and co. Specimens of printingtypes made at Bruce's N. Y. type foundry. N. Y. 1882. Q. 655: R5

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Brady, W: The kedge-anchor, or Young sailor's assistant; appertaining to the practical evolutions of modern seamanship, rigging, knotting, splicing, blocks, purchases, running-rigging and other miscellaneous matters, applicable to ships of war and others. Ill. 3d ed. imp. and enl. N. Y. 1848. O. 656+1 Hunter, Theodore, and Jarvis Patten. Port charges and requirements on vessels in various ports of the world; with tables of moneys, weights and measures of all nations and a telegraphic codex for masters, owners and ship brokers. N. Y. 1879. Q. 656: R2 Contents. Pt. 1. United States and Dominion of Canada. 2. Mexico, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, East and West Indies, and the islands of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Adams, W: H: Davenport. Light houses and light ships; a descriptive and historical account of their mode of construction and organization. New ed., rev. Lond. 1878. 656:3

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Russell, W: Clark. Sailors' language; a collection of sea- terms and their definitions. Lond. 1883. D. 656:4

Book-keeping and business

manuals.

Haddon, James. Commercial book-keeping and phraseology in four languages. 15th ed. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1879. D. 657: 1 Mayer, C: Mercantile manual; a compendium of the history and methods of trade. Milw. 1880. O. 658:4 Monsanto, H. M. Manual of commercial correspondence in french. N. Y. 1881. D. 658:5 Hamilton, Robert. An introduction to merchandise; containing the theory and practice of arithmetic, algebra, with the doctrine of annuities, and commerce, incl. treatises on monies, weights, measures, exchanges, and book-keeping, with an app. containing tables of logarithms, compound interest and annuities, an explanation of commercial terms and answers; the whole newly modelled by Elias Johnston. Edinb. 1820. O. 658:3 Beale, C: E. and M. R. Gately, eds. Universal educator; an educational cyclopædia and business guide. 9th ed. rev. Bost. [1883]. Q. 658+8 Berg, Albert Ellery. The universal self-instructor and manual of general reference, incl.

many valuable vocabularies and carefully compiled tables. Ill. N. Y. 1883. Q.

658+11 Gaskell, G. A. Gaskell's compendium of forms, educational, social, legal and commercial; embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and book-keeping, and aid to english composition. Also, a manual of agriculture and mechanics, with a complete guide to parliamentary practice; rules of order for deliberative assemblies, organization and conduct of business, etc. III. St. Louis. 1881. Q. 658+7 Hill, T: E. Hill's manual of social and business forms; a guide to correct writing, showing how to express written thought plainly, rapidly, elegantly and correctly. Chicago. 1883. Q. 658+9 McCabe, James D. The national encyclopædia of business and social forms; embracing the art of writing well, how to express

written thought in a correct and elegant manner, an explanatory treatise on book keeping, a practical guide to the preparation of business and legal documents, carefully prepared tables of reference, parliamentary laws, the laws of etiquette and good society, the art of making home happy, valuable household receipts; the art of writing poetry, with choice selections from the best authors. Ill. Chic. n. d. O. 658+10 Robinson, Nugent, comp. Collier's cyclopedia of commercial and social information, and treasury of useful and entertaining knowledge. N. Y. 1882. Q. 658+6 Epeneter, G: Franz. Table to find the exact contents of barrels, cistern tubs and all kinds of other round tubs for the use of brewers, coopers, kettle and tub manufacturers, government gaugers, etc. Milw. 1874. O. 658:2

7. Industrial arts.

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Kentish, T: The pyrotechnist's treasury, or Complete art of making fire works. Lond. 1878. D. 662:1 Berthelot, Marcellin P: Eugène. Explosive materials; a series of lectures delivered before the College de France, Paris. Added, a short historical sketch of gunpowder, tr. from the german of K: Braun by J: P. Wisser; and a bibliography of works on explosives. [Van Nostrand's science ser.] N. Y. 1883. T. 662:2 Eissler, Manuel. The modern high explosives, nitro-glycerine and dynamite; their manufacture, their use and their application to mining and military engineering; pyroxine or gun-cotton, the fulminates, picrates and chlorates, also the chemistry and analysis of the elementary bodies which enter into the manufacture of the principal nitro-compounds. N. Y. 1884. O. 662+3 Hare, Robert. Memoir on the explosiveness of niter, with a view to elucidate its agency in the tremendous explosion of july 1845, in New York. Wash. 1850. Q. In Smithsonian contributions. 506: R3 v2 Y-Worth, W. A new art of making wines, brandy and other spirits compliant to the late act of parliament, concerning distillation.... Lond. 1691. S.

663:1 Thudichum, J: L: W:, and A: Dupré. A treatise

a complete manual of viticulture and onology. [Ill.] Lond. 1872. O. 663:2 Note. For viniculture and wine-making, see also cl. 634, col. Dannehl, Gustav. Die verfälschung des bieres ; ein wort an das reichskanzler-amt. In Deutsche zeit- und streit-fragen.

304:15 v7 Antisell, T: The manufacture of photogenic or hydro-carbon oils from coal and other bituminous substances, capable of supplying burning fluids. N. Y. 1859. O. 665+1 United States. Census office. Tenth census,

1880, v. 10: Report on the production, technology and uses of petroleum and its products, by S. F. Peckham.-Report on the manufacture of coke, by Joseph D. Weeks.-Report on the building stones of the U. S., and statistics of the quarry industry for 1880. Ill. Wash. 1884. Q. in 317 : D Hughes, S: The construction of gas-works and the manufacture and distribution of coal gas. 6th ed. re-written and much enl. by W: Richards. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1880. D. 665:2 Nesbitt, Alexander. Glass. Ill. (South Kensington art handbooks.) Lond. n. d. D. 666: 1 Sauzay, Alexandre. Wonders of glass-making in all ages. [Ill. lib. of wonders.] N. Y 1875. D. 666: 2 Dunlop, Madeline A. Wallace-. Glass in the old world. Lond. n. d. O. 666: 3 Haigh, James, tr. The dier's [sic] assistant in the art of dying wool and woolen goods, extracted from the philosophical and chymical works of those most eminent authors Ferguson, Dufay, Hellot, Geoffery, Colbert and that reputable french dier M. de Julienne. Tr. from the french, with add. and practical experiments. Pough

Lieber, Oscar M. The assayer's guide, or Prac

tical directions to assayers, miners and smelters for the tests and assays, by heat and by wet processes, of the ores of all the principal metals, of gold and silver coins, and alloys, and of coal. Phila. 1880. D. 668: 1 Overman, F: A treatise on metallurgy, comprising mining and general and particular metallurgical operations, with a description of charcoal, coke and anthracite furnaces, blast machines, hot blast, forge hammers, rolling mills, etc. Ill. 2d ed. N. Y. 1854. O. 669+3 Lamborn, Robert H. The metallurgy of copper; an introd. to the methods of seeking, mining, and assaying copper, and manufacturing its alloys. 6th ed. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1875. D. 669:1 -The metallurgy of silver and lead, a description of their ores, their assay and treatment, and valuable constituents. 6th ed. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1878. D. 669:2 Watt, Alexander. Electro-metallurgy, practically treated. 7th ed., enl. and rev. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1880. D. 669:4

Mathiot, G: Report on the electrotyping operations of the coast survey. In U. S. coast survey rep. 1851.

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Note. For other art. on this subject, see General index in the rep. for 1854 and 1864.

2. Manufactures.

Bishop, J. Leander. A history of american manufactures from 1608 to 1860; exhibiting the origin and growth of the principal mechanic arts and manufactures from the earliest colonial period to the adoption of the constitution; and comprising annals of the industry of the U. S. in machinery, manufactures and useful arts, with a notice of the important inventions, tariffs, and the results of each decennial census, with an app. containing statistics of the principal manufacturing centres, and descriptions of remarkable manufactories at the present time. 3d ed. Phila. 1868. 3 v. O. 670+1 United States. Census office. Tenth census, 1880, v. 2: Report on the manufactures of the U. S., june 1, 1880. Maps and ill. Wash. 1883. Q. in 317: D Contents. Walker, Francis A. Remarks on the statistics of mfrs.-General statistics; tabular statements. - Hollerith, Herman. Statistics of power used in mfrs.-Wright, Carroll D. The factory system of the U. S.-Fitch, C: H. Mnfs. of interchangeable mechanism, compiled, under the dir. of W. P. Trowbridge: Fire-arms; Ammunition; Sewing machines; Locomotives and railroad machinery; Watches: Clocks; Ag'l implements. -Fitch, C: H. Manufacture of hardware, cutlery and edge-tools, also saws and files, comp. under the dir. of W. P. Trowbridge. -Swank, James M. Statistics of the iron and steel production of the U. S: Pt. 1, Statistics; pt. 2, History. Wyckoff, W: C. Silk mfg. industry of the U. S.-Atkinson, E: Cotton mfrs. of the U. S.-Bond, G: W: Wool manufacture in all its branches.-Rowland, W: L. Manufacture of chemical products and salts. - Weeks, Joseph D. Manufacture of glass [incl. processes, products and history].-General index.

Ure, Andrew. The philosophy of manufactures, or An exposition of the scientific, moral and commercial economy of the factory system of Great Britain. 3d ed., continued in its details to the present time. Lond. 1861. D. 677: 1 Noyce, Elisha. The boy's own book of the manufactures and industries of the world. Ill. Lond. [1881]. D. x 670: 2

Metals.

Pollen, J: Hungerford. Gold and silversmiths' work. I [South Kensington art handbooks]. Lond. n. d. D. 671:3

Gee, G: E.

The goldsmith's handbook; containing full instructions for the alloying and working of gold, including the art of alloying, melting, reducing, colouring, collecting, and refining; the processes of manipulation, recovery of waste, chemical and physical properties of gold; with a new system of mixing its alloys, solders, enamels, and other useful rules and recipes. 2d ed. enl. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1881. D.

671:1 The silversmith's handbook; containing full instructions for the alloying and working of silver, incl. the different modes of refining and melting the metal; its solders, the preparation of imitation alloys, methods of manipulation, prevention of waste, instructions for improving and finishing the surface of the work, together with other useful information and memoranda. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1877. D. 671:2 The hall-marking of jewellery, practically considered; comprising an account of all the different assay towns of the United Kingdom, with the stamps at present employed, also the laws relating to the standards and hall-marks at the various assay offices, and a variety of practical suggestions concerning the mixing of standard alloys, and other useful information. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1882. D. 671:7 Graham, Walter. The brass-founder's manual; instructions for modelling, pattern-making, moulding, alloying, turning, filing, burnishing, bronzing, etc., containing copious receipts and tables, and notes of prime costs and estimates 5th ed. Ill. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1879. D. 671:5 Warn, Reuben H: The sheet metal worker's instructor for zinc, sheet iron, copper and tin plate workers and others; containing a selection of geometrical problems, also practical and simple rules for describing the various patterns required in the different branches of the above trades. Added, an app. containing instructions for boilermaking, mensuration of surfaces and solids, rules for calculating the weights of different figures of iron and steel, tables of the weights of iron, steel, etc. Ill. 671+4

Phila. 1880. O.

Crane, W. J. E. The sheet metal worker's guide; a hand-book for tinsmiths, coppersmiths, zincworkers, etc.; comprising numerous

x denotes books specially adapted for children.

geometrical diagrams and working patterns with descriptive text. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1883. D. 671:6 Courtney, J: The boiler-maker's ready reckoner; with examples of practical geometry and templating, for the use of platers, smiths and riveters. Rev. and ed. by D. Kinnear Clark. 2d ed. rev. with add. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1885 [1884]. D. 671:8 Bauerman, H. A treatise on the metallurgy of iron, containing outlines of the history of iron manufacture, methods of assay, and analyses of iron ores, processes of manufacture of iron and steel, etc. 4th ed., rev. and enl. Ill. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1874. D. 672:1 Armour, James. Iron and heat, beams, pillars and iron smelting; exhibiting in simple form the principles concerned in the construction of iron beams, pillars and bridge girders and the action of heat in the smelting furnace. Ill. 2d ed. rev. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1874. D.

672:2 Overman, F: The manufacture of iron in all its various branches; incl. a description of wood-cutting, coal-digging, and the burning of charcoal and coke, the digging and roasting of iron ore, the building and management of blast furnaces, working by charcoal, coke, or anthracite, the refining of iron and the conversion of the crude into wrought iron by charcoal forges and puddling furnaces, also a description of forge hammers, rolling mills, blast machines, hot blast, etc. Added, an essay on the manufacture of steel. 3d ed. rev. Ill. Phila. 1854. O. 672+4 Truran, W: The iron manufacture of Great Britain, theoretically and practically considered; incl. descriptive details of the ores, fuels and fluxes employed, the preliminary operation of calcination, the blast, refining and puddling furnaces, engines and machinery, and the various processes in union. 2d ed., rev. by J. Arthur Phillips and W: Dorman. N. Y. 1867. Q. 672+5 Ede, G: The management of steel. 4th ed. rev. and enl. N. Y. 1867. D. 672: 6 Gruner, L: Emmanuel. The manufacture of steel. Tr. from the french by Lenox Smith, with an app. on the Bessemer process in the U. S. by the translator. Ill. N. Y. 1872. O. 672+3 United States. Congress. Report of the U. S. board appointed to test iron, steel and other metals. Ill. Wash. [1878-]1881. 2 v. O. in 672: D

Contents. V. 1. Rep. of the committee on chaincables, malleable iron, reheating and rerolling wrought iron; giving the result of experiments on the strength of wrought iron in bars and in chains, the effect of different degrees of reduction in rolling, of reheating, rerolling and hammering, and a comparison of chemical causes with physical results, proving strains for chain-cables, the correct form for test-pieces, and miscellaneous investigations into the physical properties of rolled wrought iron; with index. Blair, Andrew A. Methods used in the analysis of iron and steel, copper, and the alloys of copper, zinc and tin. App.: Selected papers on the metallic alloys; with bibliography and index. 2. Rep. on a preliminary investigation of the properties of the copper-zinc alloys, made under the dir. of the com. on metallic alloys, Robert H. Thurston chair

man, in the mechanical laboratory of the Stevens institute of technology. - Records of tests of [the same]. Rep. on the strength of iron girders and columns, made under the dir. of the com. on girders and columns, W: Sooy Smith chairman.-Results of tests and analyses of steels, made under the dir. of the com. on chemical research, Alex. L. Holley chairman.-Rep. on the tests of quality of steels for tools, made under the dir. of the com. on tool steels, D: Smith chairman.-App. Tresca, H: E: Memoir on the planing of metals; tr. from the french by C. F. Kroeh.

Other manufactures.

Dobson, E: A rudimentary treatise on the manufacture of bricks and tiles; containing an outline of the principles of brick-making, rev. and corr. by C: Tomlinson. 6th ed., with add. by Robert Mallet. Ill. [Weale's ser.] Lond. 1877. D.

673:1 Wedgwood, C. R. The history of the tea-cup; with a descriptive account of the potter's art. Lond. n. d. S. 673:2 Lukin, James. The lathe and its uses, or Instruction in the art of turning wood and metal; incl. a description of the most modern appliances for the ornamentation of plane and curved surfaces, an entirely novel form of lathe for eccentric and roseengine turning, a lathe and planing machine combined, and other valuable matter relating to the art. 3d ed. with add. chapchap. ters and index. [Anon.] Lond. 1871. Ö. 674:1

Davis, C: T: The manufacture of leather;

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description of all the processes for the tanning, tawing, currying, finishing and dyeing of every kind of leather, incl. the various raw materials and the methods for determining their values, the tools, machines and all details of importance connected with an intelligent and profitable prosecution of the art, with special reference to the best american practice. Added, complete lists of all american patents for materials, processes, tools and machines for tanning, currying, etc. Phila. 1885. O. 675+1 Smith, J. E. A. A history of paper, its genesis and its revelations; origin and manufac ture, utility and commercial value of an indispensable staple of the commercial world. Holyoke, Mass. 1882. O. 676+1 Rock, Daniel. Textile fabrics. Ill. [South Kensington art hand-books]. Lond. 1876. D. 677:2 Ashenhurst, T: R. Design in textile fabrics. (Manuals of technology). N. Y. 1883. S. 677:3 Schmoller, Gustav. Die entwicklung und die

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krisis der deutschen weberei im 19 jahrhundert vortrag gehalten im zweigverein des Deutschen gewerbmuseums in Magdeburg. In Deutsche zeit- und streit-fragen. 304: 15 v2

Coxon, Herbert. Oriental carpets, how they are made and conveyed to Europe; with a narrative of a journey to the east in search of them. Lond. 1884. O. 677:4

Ure, Andrew. The cotton manufacture of Great Britain investigated and ill., with an introd.

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